Through the Аncient Greek Religion with Kernos Guided by the Spirit of Marcel Detienne: Review of Kernos 32/2019, Revue interna- tional et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique

Abstract

Kernos 32/2019 is devoted to the memory of the prominent intellectual, scholar, and professor Marcel Detienne. His contribution to the European and world Humanities and historical and comparative anthropology is immense. Detienne’s input towards a renewed history and non-idealized approach to Greek civilization, against the absolute rationality and against the nationalist and identity ideologies sought in the Greek models of autochthony is diligently built throughout all his books and throughout his efforts to establish the academic dialogue. Removing the dust off the Greek matters, he found something more thrilling – because it was more truthful – then the worn-out “Greek miracle”.